The Infidelity Episodes, Part 2: The Betrayers

Dear Sugars

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Boston, Wbur, Sugar, Cheryl Strayed, Society & Culture, Dear, Relationships, Advice, Steve Almond

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Sugars continue their exploration of infidelity by hearing from people who have betrayed their partners. They discuss a letter from a desperate wife, whose husband gave her a second chance after an emotional infidelity, only for her to do it again; and another from a young mother who has gotten herself tangled up with the neighbor after years in an unhappy marriage. In Part 1, the Sugars heard from the Betrayed. And in Part 3, the Sugars speak to a leading expert on infidelity, who will make you rethink everything …

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0:00.0	Hey, Sugar Fans, we are going to be taking some time off to work on new episodes and we'll be back this summer with a brand new season of Dear Sugar Radio.
0:08.8	That's right, we'll be releasing episodes in seasons going forward and we have some more exciting developments on the horizon that we can't quite tell you about yet but we will soon.
0:17.4	And now listen, there's something you can do in the meantime for us though because you listeners are the reason we love making this show more than anything and we want you to actually be a part of planning what shows we do moving ahead.
0:29.2	So if you have an idea for an episode, write to us at Dear Sugar Radio at gmail.com and put show idea in the subject line.
0:36.2	We're going to be listening back during this little break to some of my favorite episodes of Dear Sugar Radio.
0:42.2	During the month of May by popular demand, we're going to be listening to our four part series we did on infidelity.
0:48.2	Enjoy and stay tuned for more Dear Sugar Radio.
0:52.2	Dear Sugar is supported by...
0:59.2	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely and heart sick.
1:03.2	Sugar is here, the both of us speaking straight into your ears. I'm Cheryl Strait.
1:10.2	I'm Steve Almond, this is Dear Sugar Radio.
1:14.2	Oh dear song, won't you please?
1:21.2	Share some little sweet days with me.
1:26.2	I check my bell vibes every day.
1:35.2	Oh, Innis Sugar, you sing my way.
1:43.2	We are on about infidelity.
1:45.2	We are on and on about infidelity.
1:48.2	Today we want to continue the act of processing a little bit what it is to be in this case the betrayer last week.
1:55.2	We talked about being the betrayed party and this week we're going to dig deep into the guts of what it feels like from the other direction people who are the betrayers.
2:04.2	As we said in part one, many of us throughout our lives we end up being on one side of the coin or the other or both by the end.
2:12.2	I can certainly remember when I was younger, I think part of the reason maybe I waited a while to get married is I was a betrayer when I was younger.
2:24.2	When my 20s and 30s especially in my 20s especially in my young 20s I can remember vividly and have written and sort of in sort of very lame, fictive disguise have written about that feeling of literally driving from the girlfriends or you know.
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